me me, Hon. Lady GREY, nee WHITBREAD (1770-1858), prominent in every work of Christian philanthropy during twenty-four years in the Commissioner’s house in Plymouth, afterwards in Ireland.—["Record” newspaper, May 26, 1858.]
fa, Francis Thornhill BARING (1786-1866), first Baron NORTHBROOK, double first at Oxford, 1817; First Lord of the Admiralty.—["Dict. N. Biog.”]
fa bro, Thomas BARING (1799-1873), financier; refused Chancellorship of Exchequer, also a peerage; head for many years of Baring Brothers and Co.—["Dict. N. Biog.”]
fa bro, Charles BARING (1807-1879), double first at Oxford, 1829; Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, 1856, of Durham, 1861.—["Dict. N. Biog.”]
fa fa bro son, Evelyn BARING (b. 1841), first Earl CROMER, P.C., son of H. Baring, M.P.; passed first into staff college from Royal Artillery; made successively Baron, Viscount, and Earl, for services in Egypt.—["Who’s Who,” and “Ency. Brit.”]
fa fa si son, Henry LABOUCHERE (1798-1869), first Baron TAUNTON, first-class “Greats” at Oxford; Cabinet Minister under Lord Melbourne and Lord John Russell; raised to peerage 1859.—["Dict. N. Biog.”]
me bro, Sir George GREY (1799-1882), Home Secretary 1846-1852, 1855-1858, 1861-1866; carried the Bill that abolished transportation.
me fa bro, Charles GREY (1764-1845), second Earl GREY, Prime Minister; carried the Reform Bill.—["Dict. N. Biog.”]
me si son, Sir Edward JENKINSON (b. 1835), K.C.B., Private Secretary to Lord Spencer when Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.—["Who’s Who.”]
Descended from fa fa fa bro, Rev. S. BARING-GOULD (b. 1834), author of numerous novels and works on theology and history.—["Who’s Who.”]
William Thomas #BLANFORD#, LL.D., F.R.S.; (1832-1905),
on staff of
Geological Survey of India,
1855-1882; accompanied Abyssinian
Expedition and Persian Boundary
Commission; sometime President of
Geological Society and of
Asiatic Soc. of Bengal, also of
Geological Section British
Assoc.; author of works dealing with
the geology and zoology of
Abyssinia, Persia, and India.—["Who’s
Who.”]
fa, William BLANFORD, established a manufacturing business in London, and was a founder, and for many years Chairman, of the Thames Plate Glass Company.
me bro, Alfred SIMPSON, established a large and successful manufacturing business in Adelaide, S. Australia.
bro, Henry Francis BLANFORD, F.R.S., for many years at the head of the Indian Meteorological Department, which he originally organized.
Right Hon. Charles #BOOTH# (b. 1840), P.C., F.R.S.,
economist and
statistician; President of
the Royal Statistical Soc., 1892-1894;
originated and carried through
a co-operative inquiry in minute
detail into the houses and
occupations of the inhabitants of
London, which resulted in
the volumes “Life and Labour of the
People of London”; author
of memoirs on allied subjects. ["Ency.
Brit.,” xxvi. 306; “Who’s
Who.”]